Panchang in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Sun 16 Aug 2009

Smartas test Ekadashi at sunrise. It begins at 07:41 on Sun 16 Aug, after that sunrise (06:10), and ends at 04:56 on Mon 17 Aug, before the next (06:10 Mon): it holds no sunrise. A kshaya Ekadashi is kept on the day it is current: Sun 16 Aug.

Aja Ekadashi: every date in Pāthardi

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 288°–300° is the 25th, Krishna Dashami. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 06:10 here. Navami ended at 09:59 Sat, before it. Dashami ends at 07:41, when the lead reaches 300°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 6 Aug, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise. Ekadashi began at 07:41 and ended at 04:56 Mon, between the sunrises of 06:10 and 06:10 Mon. Sunday reads Dashami and Monday reads Dwadashi: Ekadashi is a kshaya tithi here.

The night of Sat 15 Aug ran from sunset 18:57 Sat to sunrise 06:10, 11 h 13 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 44 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 06:10 to 18:56, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 35 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 18:56 to 06:10 Mon, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 24 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Mrigashira spans 53°20′–66°40′; the Moon entered its pada 2 at 56°40′. It leaves at 19:48, for Ardra.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 119.3° + 58.5° = 177.8°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 173°20′–186°40′ is the 14th, Harshana. It ends at 20:02, then Vajra.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Dashami is Vanija and the second Vishti. Vanija ended at 20:54 Sat, when the lead reached 294°; Vishti runs until 07:41.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 06:10 to 06:10 Mon, so the hours after midnight still belong to Raviwara.

An amanta month runs from new moon to new moon and takes its name from the rashi the Sun is in at the new moon that begins it: Karka gives Shravana. The Sun enters Simha on 16 Aug, inside the month. The next new moon, 20 Aug, finds it in Simha and begins Bhadrapada.

A purnimanta month runs from full moon to full moon, so its waning half comes first. It shares its name with the amanta month that its second half falls in: the new moon of 20 Aug, with the Sun in Simha, begins Bhadrapada. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Bhadrapada here, and Shravana in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 26 Mar 2009, 21:35 Thu. Since then the Sun has moved 137.2° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2066; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1931.